Posts about programming

I found these quotes on a random blogger's site, who in turn found this whole file randomly looking through a Terry Pratchett ftp directory on an MIT machine, back in 1995 or 96. He luckily saved a copy and I'm reposting here because I don't want to lose them to the fickleness of the Net.

I
posted this
reply to an Ask
Slashdot: Do
Kids still program? I found myself commenting all over that thread… it
must be close to my heart :-) Reproducing here, and exploring a little
further.

Many of the observations made on Slashdot are right. I wonder what it is that
drives me to hack, that is missing from what is covered? Why do I like to hack,
and why would it be passed over by kids these days? Or would it?